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If you're looking for the inside scoop on the latest version of FileMaker, you've come to the right place.Authors Scott Love and Steve Lane are FileMaker experts who were involved in the development of FileMaker 8, and they bring that knowledge to you in Special Edition Using FileMaker 8.Frequent tips, case studies, and thorough examples show you how to avoid mistakes and save time in developing databases with FileMaker 8. This is the comprehensive reference that every database developer needs on their shelf....

Special Edition Using EJB 2.0 starts with a description of how EJB fits into the big picture of J2EE development, then covers such topics as: Locating EJB's using JNDI Managing data with EJB Query Language Building JMS applications using the new Message-driven Bean Planning EJB applications using design patterns Later chapters describe advanced development topics including interoperability, horizontal services and clustering. Throughout the book, the authors construct a component-based auction web site using the J2EE architecture as a practical example....

AJAX is hot, hot, hot! Why? It's simple. With AJAX, internet developers and designers can create web-based applications that look and feel like desktop applications. These are responsive, highly-interactive applications that represent a new breed called "Rich Internet Applications" (RIA). This book is a guide to designing, implementing, and debugging AJAX applications. The book begins by comparing and contrasting the traditional web application lifecycle with that of an AJAX application. It then covers core AJAX technology, including the XMLHTTPRequest object, and describes various methods for "consuming" data returned by it. Because AJAX represents a fundamentally new way of creating web applications, the book is careful to explo...

Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas is the definitiveguide to maximizing the performance, flexibility, and manageability ofany Oracle 8i/9i data warehouse. Legendary Oracle data warehouse expertBert Scalzo offers hard-won lessons and proven techniques for designing,constructing, tuning, and maintaining star schema data warehouses inreal production environments. Coverage includes: planning hardware andsoftware architectures; star schema design; data loading; queryoptimization; partitioning; administration; and much more....